17-year-old arrested on suspicion of homicide in Recklinghausen. Autopsy showed signs of a violent death by strangulation.
Children discovered the woman's body in a remote part of the schoolyard. Classes at the elementary school were canceled on Monday, according to the city's police.. The investigation into the motive for the crime and evaluations of the traces continued on Monday evening, police said. The suspect and the victim would have known each other, it said.